Chopper Guard Harden The Fuck Up Award: Svein Tuft – hard as fuck

-- In 2003, he showed up for the Prime Alliance pro team’s training camp near Los Angeles. He had ridden there from Canada. “He had this really long beard, and he smelled very bad,” said Jonathan Vaughters, then in his last year of professional racing.

While his European peers experimented with women’s underwear and side-parts, Canadian cyclist Svein Tuft, who this year rides the Tour de France with the Garmin-Slipstream squad, rode vast tracts of Canadian wilderness on a $40 bike hooked to a homemade trailer groaning under the weight of a sack of potatoes and Tuft’s 80-pound dog, Bear.

By all means clap Team Cancer Man, but here’s a rider we can really holler for, eh.

Now, go make yourself a nice cup of harden the fuck up and read the full story here.